constant correction to survey-derived inequality estimates. Underreporting of income by the bottom 50% of the world income … distribution has become particularly important in recent decades. We reconfirm the findings of the literature that global poverty … and inequality have declined dramatically between 1980 and 2019. Finally, we find that within-country inequality is …

This paper presents new findings on global inequality dynamics from the World Wealth and Income Database (WID …. Long-run wealth inequality dynamics appear to be highly unstable. We stress the need for more democratic transparency on …

The traditional approach to poverty measurement puts no explicit weight on success at increasing the typical level of … available surveys for the developing world over 1981-2011, the expected value of the floor is about half the $1.25 a day poverty …

The paper provides new measures of global poverty that take seriously the idea of relative-income comparisons but also … acknowledge a deep identification problem when the latent norms defining poverty vary systematically across countries. Welfare … model of relative-income comparisons calibrated to data on national poverty lines. Both bounds indicate falling global …

and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse … development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we …

World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … poverty if we use other poverty lines. We find that various measures of global inequality have declined substantially and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 …

, we find no evidence that SMEs alleviate poverty or decrease income inequality …, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force …

dimensions of poverty, and more concerned about the total number of poor than the incidence of poverty. In regard to inequality …, critics tend to refer more to changes in absolute inequality, and income polarization, rather than the inequality measures …

and poverty alleviation. We find that financial development reduces income inequality by disproportionately boosting the … poverty and income inequality. These results are robust to controlling for other country characteristics and potential reverse … development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we …

globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the …